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Cricket at Isandlwana?
Stephen Coan


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H. Rider Haggard in the section of his autobiography, The Days of My Life, concerning the Anglo-Zulu War makes this comment: "Our generals and soldiers entered on it with the lightest of hearts; notwithstanding the difficulties and scarcity of transport they took them with them their cricketing outfit into Zululand. This I know, since I was commissioned to bring home a wicket that was found on the field of Isandhlwana, and return it to the headquarters of a regiment to which it belonged, to be kept as a relic." (H.R. Haggard, The Days, Vol.1, pp.117-118.)

Does anyone have any idea which regiment the wicket might have belonged to?

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Stephen Coan
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